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  • Trump’s Trumpy Ukraine Gambit

    02/26/2025 7:22:19 AM PST · by karpov · 22 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | February 25, 2025 | Holman W. Jenkins
    Let’s not be squirrels who find the same nut over and over and are surprised each time. Donald Trump’s latest outburst represents, by my count, the third round of Mr. Trump popping off at Ukraine’s President Zelensky, perhaps for no reason deeper than Mr. Zelensky’s spurning of a Trump proffer on minerals. Mr. Trump’s all-purpose strategy when frustrated is tit-for-tat. It fills his need to dominate the news constantly while he fumbles around for a laurel to award himself in place of the one that got away. Where press disingenuousness bleeds into dishonesty is treating his every ad lib as...
  • Climate Change Is Affordable

    11/28/2018 5:04:03 AM PST · by reaganaut1 · 18 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | November 27, 2018 | Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
    ... The new U.S. report, as well as a United Nations report issued in October, instead aim at frightening the public—exactly the approach that so manifestly has failed to move the needle for 35 years. Maybe it’s because voters are skeptical of doom-mongering. Maybe they have grown fatalistic about climate change. Or maybe, reflecting the folly of climate campaigners, they’ve gotten a message that acting on greenhouse gases requires giving up prosperity. Reporting Sunday on the French fuel-tax demonstrations, the New York Times noted: “Many in the crowd said that they did not disdain the government’s environmental goals, but that...